From Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice%27s_Adventures_in_Wonderland In Chapter 7 , the Hatter gives his famous riddle without an answer: "Why is a raven like a writing desk?" Although Carroll intended the riddle to have no solution, in a new preface to the 1896 edition of Alice , he proposes several answers: "Because it can produce a few notes, though… they are very flat; and it is nevar put with the wrong end in front!" (Note the spelling of "never" as "nevar"—turning it into "raven" when inverted. This spelling, however, was "corrected" in later editions to "never" and Carroll's pun was lost). Puzzle expert Sam Loyd offered the following solutions: Because the notes for which they are noted are not noted for being musical notes Poe wrote on both They both have inky quills Bills and tales are among their characteristics Because they both stand on their legs, conceal their steels (steals), and o...
Tall Thanksgiving Tissaw Tale Transcribed Originally written in the summer of 1990 The titanic Teuton Tissaw turned testily toward the threatening thrasher tornado. Teeming terror throughout the town; this thick tantalizing twister threaded teasing thunderbolts throughout the tiny townsquare –townsfolk a-trembling! Tissaw ’s task towered tall, to tame this twirling travesty. Tracing the theory to this termination; Tissaw tinkered then tampered, thus twining two tiny teaspoons triolite to three tough tungsten telepathic trolls. Tactically transfusing this turbulence; the tri-thugs tactile tacit thought transfers tricked the tangled twister to taper throttle, then thump toylike turnpikeward, terrifically thinning the terra. Then tempered to termination the townspeople throng thrust Tissian thanks to thine throne.
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